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Argos, Peloponnese Argos (; el, Άργος ; grc, label= Ancient and Katharevousa, Ἄργος ) is a city in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and the oldest in Europe. It is the largest city in A ...

, a city in Argolis, Greece **

Ancient Argos Argos (; el, Άργος ; grc, label= Ancient and Katharevousa, Ἄργος ) is a city in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and the oldest in Europe. It is the largest city in ...

, the ancient city *

Argos (retailer) Argos Limited, trading as Argos, is a catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos. The compan ...

, a catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland Argos or ARGOS may also refer to:

Businesses

Argos Comunicación Argos Comunicación is a television and film production company owned by Epigmenio Ibarra based in Mexico City. Profile The company started as the telenovela-production unit for TV Azteca with '' Nada personal'' and has since then produced many ...

, a Mexican television and film company *

Argos Energies Argos Energies ltd is an independent oil company with headquarters in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The company is active in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and France. Argos Oil was founded in 1983 by their CEO Peter Goedvolk. Arg ...

, a Dutch oil and gas company *

Grupo Argos Grupo Argos S.A is a Colombian conglomerate with large investments in the cement and energy industries. Its cement company Argos has operations in Colombia, the United States, Panamá, Honduras and the Caribbean. Celsia, its energy company, own ...

, a Colombian cement and energy conglomerate

Places

Argos-Mykines Argos-Mykines ( el, Άργος-Μυκήνες) is a municipality in the Argolis regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the city of Argos. The municipality has an area of 1002.508 km2. The mayor is Dimitris Kamposos, ...

, a municipality in Argolis, Greece *

Argos (Nisyros) Argos ( grc, Ἄργος) was a small town of ancient Greece in the southwest of the island of Nisyros. Its site is located near modern Stavros. References Populated places in the ancient Aegean islands Former populated places in Greece

, an ancient settlement on Nisyros island, Greece *

Amphilochian Argos Amphilochian Argos ( grc, Ἄργος τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικόν, la, Argos Amphilochicum) was the chief town of ancient Amphilochia, situated at the eastern extremity of the Ambraciot Gulf, on the river Inachus. Its territory was called Argei ...

, an ancient settlement in Amphilochia, Greece *

Argos Orestiko Argos Orestiko ( el, Άργος Ορεστικό, , Orestean Argos, before 1926: Χρούπιστα - ''Chroupista''; rup, Hrupishte) is a town and a former municipality in the Kastoria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government refo ...

, a town in the southwest-central part of Kastoria, Greece *

Argos Pelasgikon Argos Pelasgikon ( grc, Ἄργος Πελασγικόν) is a Homeric location of Thessaly mentioned in the "Catalogue of Ships" passage: It has been interpreted to be a city in the Pelasgiotis district or an alternative name of Phthia, the king ...

, an ancient settlement in Thessaly, Greece *

Argos (river) The Argos is a river in the region of Murcia, Spain. It is a tributary of the river Segura. It starts in Caravaca de la Cruz, runs through Cehegín, Valentin Valentin is a male given name meaning "strong, healthy, power, rule, terco". It com ...

, a river in Spain *

Argos, Indiana Argos is a town in Green and Walnut townships, Marshall County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,777 at the 2020 census. Geography Argos is located at (41.237732, -86.245976). According to the 2010 census, Argos has a total area of ...

, a town in the United States

Fictional

* Argos (Conan), a fictional nation in the world of Conan the Barbarian * Argos (''Stargate''), a fictional planet in the ''Stargate SG-1'' universe

Science and technology

Argos (EGFR Inhibitor) Argos is a secreted protein that is an inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway in ''Drosophila melanogaster''. Argos inhibits the EGFR pathway by sequestering the EGFR ligand Spitz. Argos binds the epidermal growth factor ...

, a secreted protein in ''Drosophila melanogaster'' *

ARGOS (optics system) Advanced Rayleigh Guided Ground Layer Adaptive Optics System (ARGOS) is a multi-star adaptive optics system which is built for use with the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). With ARGOS, both sides of the LBT will be equipped with a multi-laser beac ...

, a multi-star optics system *

ARGOS (satellite) The Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS) was launched on 23 February 1999 carrying nine payloads for research and development missions by nine separate researchers. The mission terminated on 31 July 2003. ARGOS was launch ...

, an American research and development space mission *

Argos (satellite system) Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms around the world. The worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring system results from Franco-America ...

, a satellite-based system for environmental data collection *

ARGOS DSS ARGOS is a Decision Support System (DSS) for crisis and emergency management for incidents with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear ( CBRN) releases. System In case of incidents with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear r ...

, a decision support system for crisis management * BRM Argos, a Portuguese microlight aircraft

Other uses

Argus (Greek myth) In Greek mythology, Argus or Argos ( /ˈɑːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος ''Argos'') may refer to the following personages * Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes. * Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus ...

, several characters in Greek mythology *

Argos (dog) In Homer's ''Odyssey'', Argos (; grc-gre, Ἄργος) is Odysseus' faithful dog. Background After ten years of fighting in Troy, followed by ten more years struggling to get home to Ithaca, Odysseus finally arrives at his homeland. In his ab ...

, Odysseus' faithful dog in Homer's ''Odyssey'' * ''Argos'' (radio program), a Dutch documentary series * ''Argos''-class patrol boat, a ship class of the Portuguese Navy *

Argos-Shimano Team DSM () is a Dutch professional cycling team at UCI WorldTeam level. The team is managed by Iwan Spekenbrink. History The team was founded in 2005 under the name "Shimano-Memory Corp", sponsored by Skil and Shimano, and was based in the Neth ...

, a former cycling team *

Renault Argos The Renault Argos was an open-top two-seater concept car created by Renault and was first shown at the 1994 Paris Motor Show. It was designed by Patrick Le Quément and was displayed purely as a design study with no performance figures issued. Te ...

, a concept car *

Task Force Argos Task Force Argos is a branch of the Queensland Police Service, responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse. Founded in 1997, the unit's original charter was to investigate institutional child abuse allegations arisin ...

, a branch of the Queensland Police Service *

Toronto Argonauts The Toronto Argonauts (officially the Toronto Argonaut Football Club and colloquially known as the Argos) are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), based in Toronto, Ontario ...

or Argos, a Canadian Football League team *

Minister Argos This is a list of characters from the anime and manga series ''Mazinger Z'', '' Great Mazinger'', ''Grendizer'', and ''Mazinkaiser'', as well as the ''Shin Mazinger'' reboot. It lists the main players of the plots as well as minor characters or ...

, a villain from the manga and anime ''Great Mazinger''

People with the surname

Eddie Argos Eddie Argos (born Kevin Macklin 25 October 1979) is the lead singer of English rock band Art Brut, and writer of comics. Personal life Born in Weymouth, England, Argos later moved to Poole, Dorset as a young child, and has subsequently wri ...